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noun Grammar.

a construction that functions syntactically as a noun, consisting of a noun and any modifiers, as all the men in the room who are reading books, or of a noun substitute, as a pronoun.

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Origin of noun phrase

First recorded in 1950–55

Words nearby noun phrase

noumenon, noun, noun adjunct, noun clause, noun incorporation, noun phrase, nourice, nourish, nourishing, nourishment, nous

How to use noun phrase in a sentence

This same outlet worked the phrase “engagement to toyboy lover” into the headline of their article on Fry.
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In 2007, Huckabee said he stood by these earlier remarks, but would phrase them differently.
The Devil in Mike Huckabee|Dean Obeidallah|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
I admit, I chuckled when I read the phrase “boomtown effects” in the New York report.
New York’s Conservative Fracking Ban|Jay Michaelson|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But the phrase “made it” does not properly describe Pomplamoose.
How Much Money Does a Band Really Make on Tour?|Jack Conte|December 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Interpreted more broadly, the phrase loses meaning: what constitutes the necessary threshold of realism?
The Birth of the Novel|Nick Romeo|November 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
No one ever argued with Levison; all understood that this particular phrase was final.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
He was guilty of the weakness of taking refuge in what is called, I believe, in legal phrase, a side-issue.
Confidence|Henry James
It seeks the shortest phrase or sentence and adds successively all the modifiers, making no omissions.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
Even if this colour scheme will not work, there is still a justification for the Asquithian phrase.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, November 3, 1894|Various
Here the “c” is hard and represents 7, and as the steamboat could easily outrun the “scow,” the phrase is easily remembered.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)

British Dictionary definitions for noun phrase

noun phrase

noun

grammar a constituent of a sentence that consists of a noun and any modifiers it may have a noun clause, or a word, such as a pronoun, that takes the place of a nounAbbreviation: NP

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